>>564538It was around the time when tumblr began raiding the entire website and when Discord became the "hip and cool" thing, making an isolated circlejerk which both pulls regular artists away and puts shittier ones in as replacements.Of course now in days they're too cowardly to show themselves, but I gurantee that they're behind every instigation, every shitpost, and every post in defense of shitty request threads like >>562322Everything was fine until some faggots who don't even post here wanted to derail and target any thread with their little girl drama. They're even trying to force memes based around their personal agenda.

>>564547Nice head canon retard. But back in reality, all the good artists left to use sites that were actually designed to post art on. They started getting bigger followings and actualy feedback then never bothered posting on /i/ again. The only people who stayed behind were people who weren't good enough to get anything from anywhere else or never drew in the first place like you.

/i/s golden age was literally TEN fucking years ago. I couldn't even draw back then but lurked as an underage because so much sick art was coming from here. What have YOU done in the past 10 years you fucking chump? I bet you're either some 30 year old man who cant do more then squiggle out some lines because you drama post on a dead board day in day out or haven't been here for more then 2 years yet think you know anything about anything while again drawing nothing.

>>564559>Nice head canon retard.>But back in reality, all the good artists left to use sites that were actually designed to post art on.I don't even need to look for the evidence, your tumblr lingo alone came right towards me. And it's bold of you to assume that some garbage website where all you have to advertise yourself is spread of word is better than 4chan, which can expose your art in a thread that 5, 20, or even 100 people are watching over.So yeah, real fucking subtle of you, Tumblr.

I doubt anyone will care enough to go through the process of making PCH Viewer work so they can play the animations but have 801 pch files archived some time before Shi-Painter died for good:https://my.mixtape.moe/aqglnu.zip

>>564632The thread itself was fine, no different than some of the other collaborative threads, but the fuckers that came from it who never shut up about it being the "death of /i/" are really annoying.

>>564639holy shit you are fucking denseTHE /b/ DRAWTHREAD IS NOTHING BUT AVATARFAGGOTRYYOU DON'T WANT IT HEREIT HAS NO /b/ CULTUREIT HAS NO /b/ MEMESIT ONLY HAS INFLATED EGOS AND CHAINED FELLATIO AKIN TO THE HUMAN CENTIPEDESTOP BEING PIC RELATED

>>564638>>564640Unrelated, just wondering, I know you go on the /aco/ oc threads, but do you ever go on the /y/ oc thread? I didn't think gay shit was your style but there's someone who talks a lot like you there.

>>564713It's not just this board. Look around the site; people only use wojacks and pepes, and the occasional smug anime reaction image when memes used to have more soul.It goes further beyond that, too, movies and television are following the same tired formulas, whether necro-ing a past IP to put their "creative spin" on it or making sassy sitcom number 6889 with the same cast as the others but with different names, acting like their jokes and quips are unique and witty; or action television drama with plenty of romance sideplots or le ebin riskay sex scene, because everyone knows you gotta have those regardless of whether the characters actually mesh. All the while producers push their goddamn agendas or have token characters so people don't whine.This world is reaching creative stagnation, but the problem is so very much deeper than that, and it's affecting everyone whether they realize it or not.

>>564719Drawing happens, but it's between an isolated group of individuals who want to create imvu or VRchat on 4chan. It can't be called /b/ because there's nothing that resembles the tradition of /b/, and it can't be called a drawthread because there's nothing that resembles the tradition of a drawthread. The /s4s/ drawthread is not a traditional drawthread either, but it at least stuck half-true to its name.

>>564713The board was always shit. If it wasn't inactive, some three or four threads nobody liked except a handful of people were always active in those threads alone and always bumped to top page every 8 to 10 minutes. Every other thread was either near or entirely inactive because it wasn't worth jack shit and amounted to a bunch of scribbles which already violated /i/'s only rule, but mods/jannies haven't acted on it then, they won't act on it now. Either that or it was a shitpost with maybe 2 or 3 posters tagging along with the joke, so really, nothing's changed. People who complain about how the board is now shit and remember better times expect some bizarre form of quality from other posters even though they're never able to deliver it themselves. You have thousands of images here in the thread out of the hundreds of thousands that existed before them or during its time. These are just nitpicked because they appeal to nostalgia and (most) are quality drawings.

>>564775The /i/ discord is dead, but there are some secret discord with artists from /i/. None of which I was ever invited to, which makes me wonder what goes on there. Maybe they're dead, doesn't seem like they post much here anymore.

>>564787aside from all the autism you just spouted,do you think this board is worth preserving? people have said that its golden age was long, long ago. Nothing of value ever gets posted anymore. I'd say you're fighting a losing battle, but you've already lost, and deep down I think you already know this.No amount of shitposting will return this board to its former glory, no amount of doxxing or harrassment, no amount of chasing people out, none of that does any good.I know you think you're doing the right thing, but even if you scared off every "artist" on this board, what would you have left?What's the point?I think you're absolutely insane.All of this has driven you insane. But you find meaning in it -- you've deluded yourself into believING you're preserving the sanctity of oekaki, when in reality, oekaki is nothing. It's absolutely nothing anymore.

I discovered this site back in 04 because I had just gotten into Oekaki and shipainter. I've seen a lot of people come and go, and 2 of my absolute favorite artists that used to post on this board have their pictures posted in this very thread. I started drawing on this site because of the one guy who only used a mouse and that's how I got into this.

I stopped coming here when the painter kept dying maybe a year or so after Black Eyes started posting.This used to be my all time favorite board on this site and now I don't even visit anymore.

Thanks for the memories, though.Maybe shipainter will come back here one day, but I know deep down it won't. Was fun while it lasted.Sage for blogpost.

OP here. Teamed up with another dev for restoring ShiPainter to its former glory.All of the paintchat ecosystem actually, since some code is shared.We'll clean up the decompiled code and refactor. My aim is to ultimately transpile or rewrite the engine to javascript, hopefully with animation support to original files as well.I tried to contact shichan for permission but got no answer and his site is gone.Hopefully he will one day notice us and join the project... Without shutting us down for trying to resurrect our favorite painchat/painter.

Damn op must not have liked my art all lol.I don't come here at all anymore but it was nice seeing some of the pics from the good ol' days that made this place great to lurk at. Shocked the collaborative longcat oekaki isn't on here.

>>568488Yep, we have a repo on Github. The other dev had already started working on it months ago, since I joined I've spend a good deal of time renaming variables, documenting and making sense of the code.It's literally the only shipainter repo being actively worked on. Try googling "shipainter github", you can't miss it.